Distinguished Service Award
This award is given annually in recognition of Professional Leadership in the scholarship and practice of Industrial Organization.
2026 Recipient
Luis Cabral
New York University Stern Business School
Luis Cabral has greatly expanded the field of industrial organization through his research on competition, widely-circulated textbook, and extensive leadership.
Cabral is known for his extensive mentorship and supervision of dozens of dissertations, his authorship of the widely-used Introduction to Industrial Organization, and his founding of IO Day. He also has held leadership roles including serving as president of major IO organizations such as E.A.R.I.E. and the Asia-Pacific IO Society, along with broad editorial and advisory service across leading journals and academic and governmental institutions.
Past Recipients
2025
Shane Greenstein, Harvard Business School
2024
David Sappington, University of Florida
2023
Francine Lafontaine, University of Michigan
2022
Christopher Snyder, Dartmouth College
2020 (awarded in 2021)
Margaret Slade, University of British Columbia
2019
William Rogerson, Northwestern University
2018
Michael Katz, University of California, Berkeley
2017
Lars-Hendrik Roller, Humboldt University
2016
Joseph Farrell, University of California, Berkeley
2015
Lawrence J. White, New York University
2014
Evan Kwerel, Federal Communications Commission
2013
Kenneth D. Boyer, Michigan State University
2012
John Kwoka, Northeastern University
